ROI & Benefits
Year 1 ROI: 2–5×. Payback in under 3 months.
CoEngen is Vertical AI for the Mining Industry, priced against the labour cost of the interpretive and reporting work it replaces. The returns compound across every study, bid, and client deliverable it touches.
Lab & testing services
Test-work reporting · hours per report
20× faster
Senior assay time off reporting, on interpretation.
Engineering & EPCM
NI 43-101 rewrite + QC · senior-engineering hours per report
24× faster
PEA, PFS, FS phases compressed across the study lifecycle.
Mining OEMs
Quote & lead capture · spend time selling, not writing
Automate the rest. Sell the equipment.
Mining operations
Daily deliverables · test work, sampling, shipment inspection
With the documentary rigour regulators expect.
Time-to-value
Approaching breakeven inside Month 1. 2–5× ROI by Month 3.
Worked example
A typical mid-size operation investing $5,000/month realises $15,000–$25,000+ in documented savings by the end of Month 3 — a 3–5× return on subscription cost.
Typical payback ramp · illustrative, based on early CoEngen deployments
Four return streams, compounding across the portfolio.
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Stream 1
Direct Full Time Engineer savings
Every study phase has a baseline interpretive workload. Geologists drafting mineralogical narrative, metallurgists consolidating test work, process engineers building proposal documentation. CoEngen eliminates the repetitive portion: normalization, cross-referencing, first-draft writing, report assembly. What remains is the judgment work your experts were hired to do.
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Stream 2
Quality control and error reduction
Manual interpretive work, across vendors, across study phases, across project teams, accumulates variance. CoEngen produces consistent, traceable interpretation with every sentence linked to its source data. The reduction in rework, internal QA cycles, and downstream regulatory back-and-forth is its own return stream.
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Stream 3
Study cycle compression
Interpretation sits on the critical path of every study phase. Shortening that segment compresses the whole study timeline. For projects where financing is timing-sensitive, and in the critical-minerals era most projects are, a compressed study cycle is a direct capital benefit, not just a labour benefit. Turnaround in days, not months.
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Stream 4
Vendor management, automated
A meaningful share of senior technical time goes into reconciling vendor submissions: comparing metallurgical results across labs, aligning assay conventions, rendering third-party data into client-required templates. CoEngen automates the comparison and the templating against any format, so your senior engineers spend time on strategic thinking rather than data entry, and your vendors turn around proposals faster because they don't need to conform to project-specific templates.
The same product, priced against four different baselines.
For lab and testing services
- Higher client throughput per senior staff member, without quality degradation
- Proven: 20 hours → 1 hour per report
- Fewer deliverables stuck in senior-staff review queues
- Same team, more billable work
- ISO 17025-aligned outputs by default
For engineering and EPCM firms
- Phase-specific Full Time Engineer savings of 0.5–1.5 (PEA/PFS/Scoping), 1–3 (FS/DFS), 2–5 (Detailed Engineering)
- Targeting 120 hours → 5 hours on NI 43-101 report rewrite and QC
- Compressed study cycles, leading to faster financing and improved project economics at bid time
- Consistent, defensible NI 43-101 interpretive content across every study
For Mining OEMs
- Faster proposal turnaround on budgetary and bid submissions, datasheets, client specifications, and test-centre data
- Tailored equipment recommendations generated from client inputs, with the sales lead routed to you directly
- Stronger guarantee-backing documentation at bid time, traceable to underlying test work
- Sales engineering scales with bid calendar rather than headcount
- Automated budgetary quotes to EPCMs, so opportunity triage stops being a survival tactic
For mining operations
- Daily test work interpretation and sampling reports drafted in hours instead of days
- Shipment-inspection deliverables produced with consistent regulatory-grade rigour
- Less senior technical-services time consumed by repetitive reporting work
Total annual value created: up to $400K per client.
For a single mid-baseline client, CoEngen creates total annual value in the range of $275K–$400K, derived from the labour efficiency, quality control, and error-reduction benefits stacked together. ROI of 4.7×–6.3× is achievable in Year 1 at typical pilot-baseline assumptions, with payback in under 3 months.
The cleanest way to get a number specific to your operation is a structured pilot.
Why this math only gets more favourable from here.
The labour-cost denominator in your ROI calculation is rising, structurally:
- Canada alone is projected to need up to 256,000 new mining workers by 2034, with a realistic shortfall of up to 133,000.¹
- The Canadian mining labour force is losing workers to retirement at a 2.3% annual rate and replacing them at 0.7%.¹
- Across the global mining industry, 72% of employers expect retention to worsen in the next five years; 50% expect hiring to get harder.²
- The 2026 inflection point in Vertical AI is enterprise demand for tailored systems with measurable, hard ROI.
CoEngen's ROI today is based on current labour costs. By the time a 3-year SaaS contract renews, those labour costs will be higher and scarcer. The return compounds.
- ¹ Mining Industry Human Resources Council, Canadian Mining Outlook 2024.
- ² World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions.
- What if we already have internal automation for this?
- Internal scripting solves point problems. CoEngen is a horizontal intelligence layer across the full interpretive workload, maintained by us rather than by your technical team on the side of their day jobs. The base model is ready for any custom application; we tailor it to your specific systems, processes, and desired outputs.
- What if our team pushes back on using AI?
- Every interpretive output is explicitly marked as draft, traced to source data, and routed through your named expert for review and approval before it leaves the system. CoEngen amplifies your experts' reach, not their authority. The strongest internal advocates are usually senior staff who were spending evenings drafting interpretive prose they didn't have time for during the day.
- What if the output doesn't meet our standards?
- A CoEngen pilot exists precisely so you can find out on your own data, at a fixed cost, before committing to a multi-year contract. If the output does not meet your interpretive quality bar, you don't convert.
- What about NI 43-101 and ISO 17025 liability?
- CoEngen supports the drafting work. Your Qualified Person certifies NI 43-101 filings; your accredited lab personnel certify ISO 17025-aligned deliverables. That separation of responsibilities is a deliberate product design choice.
Get the ROI number for your own operation.
A 4–8 week pilot produces ROI measured against your own baseline.